Modern Monetary Theory: An Intro. Redfin Real Estate Forecast for 2022. BAD Social Security ROI For Your Retirement

HEYHEYHEY!

Is real estate in your retirement plan? Are you behind on retirement savings and hoping to make up for it with Social Security? Have you ever heard of Modern Monetary Theory?

Well, today we're gonna talk about all this stuff and it's going to make you SMARTER.

First up, the weak article about MMT in the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/business/economy/modern-monetary-theory-stephanie-kelton.html

Here's a link to the Redfin 2022 Real Estate forecast update(and it's not as bad as you might think...)

https://www.redfin.com/news/housing-market-update-2022-forecast

And finally, we get to a listener question about Social Security. Unfortunately, if you're depending on SS for the bulk of your retirement income, it's hard to increase your benefit by simply earning more money. I cover a couple numbers and it's not pretty.

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